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But the weaknesses of the current governance regime, epitomized by rampant illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing, threaten to undermine the global security and sustainability to which well managed oceans can contribute.
Compounded by the deepening integration of the region through Chinese migration and extractive development policies, Uyghur protests erupted throughout the late 1990s, eventually leading to isolated bombings, attacks on Uyghur sympathizers to Chinese rule, and violent responses to Chinese police actions against illegal social gatherings and activities.
Because the PCC “was not equipped to deal with systemic and illegal invasions of privacy,” the committee set out proposals for a reformed regulator.
Such action must not only aim to protect shark populations directly; it must also address major threats to sharks, such as illegal trade, bycatch, and overfishing.
Similarly, if the summit concludes without any unified condemnation of Russia’s actions in the Kerch Strait, Putin will have scored an important victory: the international community’s tacit acceptance of his illegal annexation of Crimea.
The least our leaders can do is prevent it from becoming a vehicle for legitimating illegal acts.
After all, social-media platforms not only play a crucial role as conduits for the free flow of information; they have also faced strong criticism for failing to police illegal or abusive content, particularly hate speech and extremist propaganda.
In fact, Germany has already enacted a law that will impose severe fines on platforms that do not remove illegal user content in a timely fashion.
Another was found to have been a slumlord who owned illegal cage-like flats that he blamed entirely on his wife, denying any involvement whatsoever.
Leung himself was caught with several illegal structures in his house, a violation that he exploited successfully against his rival, Henry Tang, in the election campaign.
Discrimination based on age, though illegal in the EU, is a routine occurrence.
When he does so by outsourcing to firms abroad that do things that would be illegal here – for example, prevent their workers from organizing and bargaining collectively – I may have a real gripe.
A new initiative called the Green Corps includes 300 forest rangers charged with stopping illegal logging, and the ministry hopes to boost their numbers within a year.
EU expansion, however, will increase trade and economic growth, and these could provide real incentives to make Kaliningrad a more attractive neighbor and trading partner, not just a feared source of illegal Russian immigrants to the EU taking advantage of a supposedly lax visa regime.
Spain’s government argues that the upcoming independence vote in Catalonia is illegal under the Spanish constitution.
Pirate fishing – often called illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing – deprives an estimated half-billion law-abiding fishermen and their communities of up to $23 billion worth of seafood annually.
Moreover, illegal fishing operations are known to subject people aboard pirate ships to unsafe and unfair working conditions at sea.
And, to make matters worse, illegal fishermen often use highly destructive gear that destroys habitats, endangers marine wildlife, and threatens healthy fisheries.
Only by working together can we successfully combat illegal fishing operations.
The US, Europe, and other countries, such as Japan, have taken significant steps to address illegal fishing.
We are starting to identify illegal fishing vessels and bar them from our ports.
This week, we commit the US and the EU to combat illegal fishing, to strengthen our monitoring, and to enforce management measures in our role as parties to regional fishery organizations and to various international treaties.
We pledge to prevent illegal fishermen from benefiting from their piracy.
Most of Europe, for example, needs better crime prevention and a serious effort at cracking down on illegal immigration.
But trade in illegal narcotics did not seriously threaten Mexico’s stability or provoke conflict with the United States until the mid-1980’s, when Colombian cocaine began to flood across Mexico to the US.
Immigrants, mostly illegal, have taken the few jobs that remain, killing and raping in their free time.
The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York recently accused the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis of doing exactly this by providing illegal kickbacks, honoraria, and other benefits to doctors – exactly what it promised not to do when it settled a similar case three years earlier.
Even when it comes to illegal immigrants, though US citizens express concern, they are more reasonable than their political leaders about how to solve the problem.
A plurality of Americans surveyed by the GMF, for example, said that illegal immigrants should be allowed to obtain legal status.
After a year of retreating, the two largest opposition parties have begun to occupy the Sejm (Poland’s parliament) to protest an illegal vote on the state budget.
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